(AGENPARL) - Roma, 8 Maggio 2026 - The second stage of the Festival of Sustainable Development, “European Leadership for the Future: Civil Society at the Helm of the Post-2030 Agenda”, held in Brussels for the first time.
Hosted by the Civil Society Organisations’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and promoted by the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS ETS), the event took place at a delicate moment for the future of the EU. Instead of accelerating, Europe risks slowing down precisely in the areas of the ecological transition and the protection of social rights outlined by the Green Deal and the European Pillar of Social Rights.
On that occasion, Agenparl interviewed Mariana Kotzeva, Director-General of Eurostat.
«Historically, economic statistical data were the most used. Everybody knows, I hope, what GDP is. But this is a measure of production. What matters for people, however, is their well-being and sustainability: what will be consumed by the current generation and what will be for the next one.
Therefore, Eurostat is working continuously to enrich what is available, not only about the economy but also about well-being and sustainability.
In that respect, it is very important to have events such as the one I had the pleasure to participate in today on Sustainable Development Goals on Agenda 2030 and to show how statistics could contribute to the measurement of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.»
